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  1. Re:Are we all supposed to know what Airbnb is? on Amsterdam Using Airbnb Listings To Identify Illegal Hotels · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is exactly what the officail stance is...

    Volkskrant (dutch)

    Taxes, fire safety, and illegal rent.
    Illegal rent: social rented space that is sub-rented.

  2. It is a bug. on Apple Has a New Porn Problem · · Score: 1

    And that bug will be fixed by a future version.

  3. Re:The MS study by HP on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 1

    Actually you might be closer to the truth than you think.

    IE was installed, since a lot of the workstations had a vm to run windows for incompable apps

    and there were some 20000 macros (really that much?) converted. some were not becuase of strange bugs. But they fail to tell that those macro's would have beeen converted anyway when going to new version of office.

  4. Re:Multisigning on Turkish Registrar Enabled Phishing Attacks Against Google · · Score: 1

    Beside the fact that this technically is not yet implemented.

    The big problem would be: what if one of the 2 signatures fails? Trust one? Only trust if one signature is correct and that it contains what the other signature should be?

    And don't forget that a signature does not say that a site is secure. It only says that the site is who it says it is. It can still do evil things, and if it does it still might be very hard to track who the evil site is.

    And even then the browser implementation to handle failures is broken. You can add an exception, but you have almost no data to tell if that is a good action or not.

  5. Re:Great on YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views · · Score: 4, Informative

    FAKE!.

    below 300 views youtube does not care too much about the views.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

  6. Re:Record in Death Valley is bullshit on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    That hot temperatures are never published. It would drive all the toerists away.

  7. Re:Should have peed their pants on Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung · · Score: 1

    Nokia was big enough to bet multiple horses. Support for symbian, their meebo, maybe android on meebo.

    Instead they burned all platforms and went for a uncerterain winPhone and low-end OS that barely are an OS. In the time between the maturing of windowsPhone (not there yet....) and the abandoning of symbian was a deep dark hole they are still falling in.

  8. Re:Preach it on Researchers Convert Phones Into Secret Listening Devices · · Score: 1

    So if the ringer was ringing and you pick up the phone there might leak some of the 90 V signal into the microphone?

    And did you consider what happens if you put a High frequency signal onto the line? Some of the signal might be affected by the condensator combined with the mic, and a usable signal might gotten of it.

    There are some court cases where the police declares that the bad guys forgot to hang up the phone and thus could be listened on... but if that is what technically really happened is a big question.

  9. Re:Huh... on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    The easiest thing to do out of your pocket.

  10. Re:Why? on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are 100 media players on windows. 97 of them depend on the decoding drivers of mediaplayer to decode videos. So if some video is dong badly ( Bad image quality/ high cpu usage/ unsupported file type), then your options to play that file become limited. VLC has all the demuxers and video decoders build -in , so that is one of your options left then.

  11. Re:Pay the $3.99 on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wrong.

    Pay the 3.99
    request the source
    make a small improvement.
    post a version for 1.35 on play

    Sell the app 3 times.

    Profit!!!!

    put a ad supported version of in the store. More profit.

  12. send a lawyer on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    Great... we send a lawyer there too. that solves 2 problems at once.

  13. black. on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 3, Informative

    White object radiate less enery but also absorb less. Black objects radiate more energy, but also absorb more. As pointed out it mainly is cold there, you you want to keep your energy instead of absorbing it.

    The solutions:
    -Solar power. No clouds on mars.
    -nuclear power densest energy you can carry.
    -really long extension cord.

  14. Re:60 days! Thats nothing. on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 1

    The most common sold milk in the Netherlands is Pasteurasation UHT or keep able milk is heated more, and tastes different. The difference in taste will not make it popular soon here.

    IF you ignore taste, like in the summary, the keep-able product is better. ........

  15. Say hello to software upgrades? on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Lot of CPU's come from the same line, except that some cores/features are disabled by the test procedure. You can just unlock them with a special code

  16. Re:Just a key, not a license. on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 1

    No, no,

    First of all, you won't sue. YOu might call them and complain,but you won't sue. If you don't even take the time to post under a real account here, you certainly do not have time to sue.

    Notice that this is only an issue if an KMS server is used, in other ways, enterprise environment. In an enterprise environment it will be very easy to replace the keys.

    And i have seen before (XP time period) that the company wide key was revoked, but you had one year to reconnect to the update server to roll out a new key (provided by MS).

    We happened to have one lone pc that was not updated in time. Only option to get a valid key on it was the default helpdesk option: put a new image on it. There is no time for real solutions, like sueing MS for misuse of their key management.

  17. Just a key, not a license. on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not a valid license. It is just a key that happens to work arround the current version of their anti-piracy control. But if you use this, and get an audit, you will have to shell out the full amount of a retail key ( 4 to six times the the price of a basic oem version). It might stop working at any time if you apply updates supplied by MS. They know what keys are published, and can block them if they want.

    This is very disappointing coming from a site that is very rigorous when it comes to the free GPL license. The MS license has at least to be paid.

  18. Re:Sounds like a step backwards to me on One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones · · Score: 1

    Right now, English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, ...
    wait.... what? First of all..
    "de-facto lingua franca" does not pass my spell check. Second, it might be your working language in your reference, but in other area's there might be other languages more appropriate . Spanish and Portuguese might be an example of this.

    If your options are between sign language and automated translation i pick automated translation.

    And learning the other language is not always a advantage. I learned German and French at school, but when doing business with German or French people i often default to engrish(!) to level the playing field since my French is not good enough to play games with the language.

  19. 16 hours a day. on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    I bet it is more efficient than having a second job just to pay the bills.

  20. Re:Will Kinects be dis-kinected during movie-fests on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    next?

    auto pause when nobody is watching.

    Note: advertisements can not be skipped, advertisements are mandatory.

    You do not want to fight your customers!

  21. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    I fail to see the relation between the autobahn and better car instruction.

    Driving fast has nothing to do with driving safely. on an empty straight road it is very easy to drive fast. Something that is impossible to do in busy urban traffic. For the last part you need the most instructions.

  22. yes but there are exceptions. on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Creating the flawless installers costs time.
    Time means money. If the software is only installed twice (on test system and production), a good flawless installer is very expensive. If it is installed a lot of times (more than 5 systems), automation of the installation will pay itself.

    Generally it is good practice to keep the developers out of the production environment.

    However there must be exceptions.
    -Emergency fixes.
    -If there is no good team of maintainers, you can actually look at the installation logs, and understands them, the developer might be the better option. A good maintainer, who only blindly runs a script is not the best option.
    -Uptime might be more important that the principle.

  23. X-men escaped. on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    They will never tell you one of the x-men/kids escaped. they might tell you that the invisible radiation inside has become too high , so nobody can check what really is going on.

    If someone does spot something and report it, it will be mistake for fantasy.

    The biggest secrets are all in the open....

  24. that is not the point. on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Those protesters believe that the good name and fame of their prophet needs to be protected at all cost,

    just like the US commenter here believe that "free speech"needs to be protected.

    The actual video made does not go above all the cat video's and "charlie bites my finger" video that are posted on youtube. those need to be protected .....

  25. Re:I'll die happy on Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Hmm, the excuse of the happy smoker.

    I bet you would like to retract that statement if you find out how valuable your health is. The sad part is that you only find this out when you lost your health.